Hà Nội People’s Court on Monday sentenced three people to death and one to life imprisonment for drug trafficking by air.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân has urged the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum to restructure its economy to tap tourism potential.

Thousands of households in the northern province of Quảng Ninh are thirsty for fresh water as most wells they use have recently been contaminated with alum.

It was a wet Sunday morning when Thành and his wife woke up at four and travelled more than 30km from Phố Hồ Commune in Bắc Ninh Province to Hà Nội to have their 3-year-old daughter tested for pork tapeworm.

National science contests for school students are attracting more and more competitors every year, according to the Ministry of Education and Training’s secondary education department.

Overlapping and ineffective co-ordination between ministries and agencies has been blamed for poor solid waste management in Việt Nam’s rural areas.

As many as 124 children from the northern province of Bắc Ninh tested positive for pork tapeworms, or Taenia solium, according to two institutes that conducted tests yesterday.

The Tây Hồ Urban Development and Investment JSC has asked for permission to build an underground parking lot in Hà Nội’s Cầu Giấy Park.

Two mountain tunnels would be built along the North-South Expressway through the central province of Nghệ An, according to the provincial Department of Transport.